RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Hey, is there an "App" available on my IPhone for reporting that pot hole down on 7th Street? It could become a reality in Long Beach thanks to a trio of councilmen

Monday, January 11, 2010

Hey, is there an "App" available on my IPhone for reporting that pot hole down on 7th Street? It could become a reality in Long Beach thanks to a trio of councilmen

My pal Long Beach City Councilman Robert Garcia, and and a couple of his "peeps" on the City Council (Patrick O'Donnell and Gary De Long) have come up with a clever way to report those nasty urban trappings that have come to bug the heck out of all of us day in and day out.

You know what I'm talkin' about.

Graffiti, that pot hole on Shoemaker north of Alondra Boulevard. that leaky water hydrant at Pioneer and South Street. that damaged sidewalk you always trip on around the corner from your house, that darn barking dog over on Ashworth Place every night at 3 a.m. .... anyway...you get the picture.

The three Councilmen want Long Beach to go "cyber" in helping make Long Beach City Hall more reactive to "common everyday" problems via your Blackberry or IPhone or other handy device we all carry around.

(Seen at recent Cambodian Parade in Long Beach is Councilman Patrick O'Donnell. Councilmen Garcia and De Long are below).

"Technology is changing our world, and unfortunately as a city, we are being left behind. Long Beach often looks to the past. Instead, we should be dreaming about tomorrow. I am committed to re-inventing the way our city looks at technology. One way to start, is to make government more efficient and responsive," Garcia said in a statement this past weekend.

"I love my iPhone, and have downloaded numerous phone applications that are designed to make my life more efficient. We (DeLong and O'Donnel)l, have submitted a proposal to the City Council to create a City Smartphone Application," said Garcia.

The application would make reporting graffiti, a pot-hole or a damaged sidewalk, quick and easy. Many new phones today including all iPhones include built in GPS systems that can track the location of the user. Residents and city staff would be able to take a photo of graffiti, the GPS in the phone would tag its location, and the application would report the graffiti almost instantly.

The "Long Beach City App" would be able to provide the same type of information about these local need fixin-problems.

Both the cities of Boston and Pittsburgh have created smart phone applications for city services with great success. Pittsburgh's application was created by a technology company with no cost to the city.

Maybe EVERY city and school district should check into the "App" thing.

Who knows, it just might make OUR government work better, faster, and more effective for all of us!

I wonder if we can invent the Fix the California State Assembly APP?

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